Non-ADOS did y’all grow up not listening to.....

[Cuban Pete]

Yes but surface level old school shyt. My mom was always hip to American music as far as major singles she liked Barry White, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin etc. Stuff like that but the deeper ADOS catalogue or lesser known internationally artists like say Ron Isley naw. We listened to alot of music in my house except for Rock or real hardcore Rap. But yea aside from the langauge barrier, listening to any American music was illegal in Cuba up until like 1991 or something like that and the only radio signal they could pick up wasnt only focused on Black music

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

I'm not sure how widespread radios were in Jamaica, or when most households would get them. but every account, interview and documentary says that people in JA were able to pick up Miami, New Orleans, and other cities' stations on their radios.
It threw me off reading this as a teen, because it didn't seem to make sense in terms of distance.
But I didn't factor in that there wasn't much interference blocking those radio signals at the time. I also think that local businesses would have powerful radios inside the store as an attraction for customers, the way modern day sports bars have games on satellite . Those businesses would go on to be the same ones who played American 45s in stores later, and where the sound system entrepreneurs came from.

Speaking of radio, in MY personal experience as a younger guy Americans from the midwest and Jamaicans had the widest musical exposure and influence. Among the dudes I went to school with Detroit dudes specifically had that wide range. My man from there explained to me that all tours and all Black music formats were played in Detroit. West Coast acts that didn't get burn on east coast stations or do shows there....played in Detroit. East Coast acts that didn't sell out West, would play in the D. He fukked with all the records that the east coast guys played and he knew about the songs that the Cali guys were pumping.
This was the case when I was younger, when terrestrial radio still drove record sales. Internet has changed all of that

Dude if American Radio stations was such a factor in Jamaica there would be NO NEED FOR THE 100 plus soundsystems traveling throughout the island


The WHITE AMERICAN MEDIA is writing these sensational accounts which are half truths ...about the impact of American radio


Because Most whites didn't understand and we're fearful of SOUNDSYSTEM CULTURE cause the Rastas who hated whites and the gunmen kept the scene Pon lock back then


It was the Soundsystems which brought the American music to the bulk of the island for people who couldnt hear the radio stations and we're not mobile

My old auntie still lives in the countryside of Jamaica near Mandeville to this day and she always would go every weekemd to hear MOBILE sounds like Metromedia...Socialist Roots...Jah Revelation..Soul Supreme and Gemini Disco play .45 singles of AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG


SHE WOULD HEAR THR BIG TRUCKS COMING THRU WITH THE SOUNSYSTEMS PON DI FLATBED a tradition still going on to this day

Matter of fact I had the pleasure of helping "stringing (wiring) up her son's soundsystem back in the summer of 93 when I was in Jamaica briefly

Yeah I was on the GUNHEART SOUND truck and we traveled all.over the island

Fukk an account or article

I EXPERIENCED THIS


And it still goes on today with other sounds in the backwoods of Jamaica

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Yes but surface level old school shyt. My mom was always hip to American music as far as major singles she liked Barry White, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin etc. Stuff like that but the deeper ADOS catalogue or lesser known internationally artists like say Ron Isley naw. We listened to alot of music in my house except for Rock or real hardcore Rap. But yea aside from the langauge barrier, listening to any American music was illegal in Cuba up until like 1991 or something like that and the only radio signal they could pick up wasnt only focused on Black music

u grew up in cuba

 

[Black Lightning]

Mad Lion SHOOT TO KILL...GUN WITHOUT A LIMIT.....

is the cover of Mary J tune




I have the Beres on a Dub Cassette mix

I'll look later

That shyt hard

 

[get these nets]

Dude if American Radio stations was such a factor in Jamaica there would be NO NEED FOR THE 100 plus soundsystems traveling throughout the island

The WHITE AMERICAN MEDIA is writing these sensational accounts which are half truths ...about the impact of American radio


Because Most whites didn't understand and we're fearful of SOUNDSYSTEM CULTURE cause the Rastas who hated whites and the gunmen kept the scene Pon lock back then


It was the Soundsystems which brought the American music to the bulk of the island for people who couldnt hear the radio stations and we're not mobile

My old auntie still lives in the countryside of Jamaica near Mandeville to this day and she always would go every weekemd to hear MOBILE sounds like Metromedia...Socialist Roots...Jah Revelation..Soul Supreme and Gemini Disco play .45 singles of AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG


SHE WOULD HEAR THR BIG TRUCKS COMING THRU WITH THE SOUNSYSTEMS PON DI FLATBED a tradition still going on to this day

Matter of fact I had the pleasure of helping "stringing (wiring) up her son's soundsystem back in the summer of 93 when I was in Jamaica briefly

Yeah I was on the GUNHEART SOUND truck and we traveled all.over the island

Fukk an account or article

I EXPERIENCED THIS


And it still goes on today with other sounds in the backwoods of Jamaica

With all due respect, you see conflict where there isn't any. Please don't filibuster the thread with information about music history.

You're arguing for the sake of arguing. Read my post again. I said that radios were probably not that widespread at certain timespans and probably in certain areas in JA. There were enough of them on the island for the people to develop appreciation for certain songs/artists,though.


How else would the Jamaicans traveling back and forth to America know which 45s would sell?

 

[Cuban Pete]

u grew up in cuba

No my parents did

 

[get these nets]

Dude if American Radio stations was such a factor in Jamaica there would be NO NEED FOR THE 100 plus soundsystems traveling throughout the island

This doesn't make sense. American or Jamaican radio stations have schedules, formats and commercials.
A mobile soundsystem setting up to play 6,7 or 8 hours of continuous popular records in a dancehall or in a yard in a controlled environment with drinks being sold or a door charge.

NYC had prominent Black format radio stations, yet people still set up jams HERE playing continuous popular records for 6,7, and 8 hours outdoors or in gyms/schools/clubs...and charged a fee at the door.

In both cases the party goers are listening to some records that they probably first heard ON THE RADIO.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

With all due respect, you see conflict where there isn't any. Please don't filibuster the thread with information about music history.

You're arguing for the sake of arguing. Read my post again. I said that radios were probably not that widespread at certain timespans and probably in certain areas in JA. There were enough of them on the island for the people to develop appreciation for certain songs/artists,though.


How else would the Jamaicans traveling back and forth to America know which 45s would sell?

dude this wasnt about SALES

JAMAICAN SOUNDSYSTEM OPERATORS traveled America to find Tunes that resonated with thier audience to WIN THE CLASH AND MASH UP THE DANCE

THERE WASNT A PLETHORA OF RECORD SHOPS TO BUY MUSIC IN JAMAICA unelss you were in the City of Kingston or the tourist spots like Montego Bay

And mostly what they biught was OBSCURE R&B SINGLES

to Have an advantage over thier rival In the clash

See you are an outsider like Dem white folks unfamiliar wiTH SOUNDSYTEM culture

Please brethren STOP POSTING ABOUT THIS CULTURE



I AM DANCEHALL SINCE 1989

 

[CarmelBarbie]

Thank you everyone for your contributions and for keeping this thread positive.

 

[Biscayne]

Good thread. Both my folks are Haitian. It really depends on when one's parents migrated here and how pervasive AA culture was in their nation at the time.

My parents came to the U.S. in the late 70's. They didn't really have a huge record collection or play much music in the house, but if they did play music it was either AA Gospel or Haitian gospel. But they did grow up watching AA shows like Goodtimes, Sanford And Son, The Jeffersons, 227, Amen, etc. And my mom and her sisters were HUGE Jackson 5 fans when they were kids in Haiti in the 70's. So they knew Michael Jacskons music since the very beginning.

On both sides of the family, my mom and dad had younger GenX Brothers and Sisters who migrated with my parents to the US. So the younger aunties and uncles were even more "hip" to ADOS music and culture since they were practically raised here, went to middle school here, gradutated HS here went to college here etc.

So when I was younger and my aunties would babysit, they'd play AA RnB of that time and New Jack Swing. I still remember my Auntie having the Cassette tape single for Boyz 2 Men "End Of The Road" and she played the hell outta it. We'd listen to Mike, Whit, Boyz 2 Men, etc, and my aunt could sing too. We'd all sit around, me my mom and my aunts and we'd watch In Living Color and Arsenio Hall. Mom looooved those shows. We'd aldo watch 227, Amen, and then later on down the line Jamie Foxx, Steve Harvey show. My mom didn't like profanity, so we couldn't sit around and watch kings of comedy, but she loooooved Steve Harvey show and all the Kings of Comedy's individual network shows.

And then I had an uncle(mom's younger brother) who was born in Haiti, but graduated HS here and went to an hbcu here and became a Q Dawg.



So all in all, AA culture at the very least partly influenced day to day family interactions and such. But my parents are still culturally rooted to Haitian culture and still go back and visit.

My love for Old school RnB and Funk came from my love of hip hop and samples and ish. Especially as a kid watching westcoast hip hop music vids. I love that Lenny Williams track. And Iove, Loved Holiday by EWF. I could listen to 60's, 70's, 80's RnB all day.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Damn. Y’all nikkas better than me. I’m AA and I couldn’t stand old school r&b growing up. My parents and their siblings didn’t listen to it. They came up during the time when house music was everywhere. My grandfather was the only one listening to it because he was from the south.

shyt would always remind me of them old ass winos on the corner of 63rd and Cottage, or some dusty nikka in a zoot suit at the 50 yard line.

He is NOT black

He is just an Agent of Chaos from Team Trump here to cause dissension with this A.D.O.S bullshyt

nikka, we've been doing really good with the vibes in this thread, so chill with the ADOS slander.

African-Americans doing what's in our best interest in a country that WE built is not bullshyt

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

nikka, we've been doing really good with the vibes in this thread, so chill with the ADOS slander.

African-Americans doing what's in our best interest in a country that WE built is not bullshyt

Little boy STFU for I pop u in your mouth


IM A BLACKMAN BORN IN THE STATES AS WELL

But I'm carribean heritage as well

And if you think CARRIBEANS and AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS ain't help BUILT THIS COUNTRY TOO

YOU IS AN IGNANT MOFO

AND YA MAMA IS TOO..WITH HER BYATCH AZZ


And I would SAY IT TO YOUR FUKKBWOI FACE



Can't you tell that dude like most of these

So called ADOS militants SUCH AS online YOURSELVES are FRAUDS AND LAMES

YALL TRIBAL WILLIE LYNCH AZZ WEIRDOES DONT SPEAK FOE US

AINT NOTHING BUT DAP CHASERS AND TRUMP AGENTS

HOW THE FUKK HE GONNA SAY HE REPRESENTS BLACK AMERICANS AND POST HIS THOUGHTS IN A THREAD TALKINF ANOUT HE NEVER HEARD LENNY WILLIAMS SONG

"CAUSE I LOVE YOU'

LIKE WTF?!?!

If u notice I accused him of being a Crakkker he never responded back

What's up with that

YALL NEGROES NEED TO GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND GET A LIFE AND SOME MONEY

 

[Budda]

Stupid thread, American black music is the most impactful and popular in the world, everybody listened to it in 70's, 80's.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

I listened to most music that played on the radio and TV from 86 to 97(birth until I left) in the Virgin Islands. I would say it was 60/40 Caribbean music/American Music for me. My Mom said she listened to American Music growing up in Dominica(commonwealth) and was a big fan on Earth Wind and fire. It's weird that this thread is made because I would ask a lot of my American friends about radio songs or classic Black american movies and some weren't aware of them

Now were these songs being played at functions and carnivals, No, not really but people would listen to them.

Crucian?

 

[JackRoss]

It's all starting to make sense now